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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 491.12+1.7%Dec 8 3:59 PM EST

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To: Al Bearse who started this subject7/17/2002 8:11:54 AM
From: dybdahl   of 74651
 
Steve Ballmer now makes it public what everybody knows: Linux IS cheaper.

varbusiness.com

An easier to read version here:

theregister.co.uk

Ballmer: "We haven't figured out how to be lower priced than Linux. For us as a company, we're going through a whole new world of thinking."

And this is what .net, services etc. is all about - how to make money when the low TCO of Linux brings down the earnings on the traditional "OS" and "Office suite" markets.

Really nothing new, just a change in how words are used.

Dybdahl.
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